Security World: Microsoft shows off at BUILD, enterprise startups show off at DEMO

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BY IDG ENTERPRISE

April 07, 2014

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Late to the enterprise mobility party, Microsoft arrives with big plans

After the launch of Office for iPad, the announcement of the Microsoft's Enterprise Mobility Suite, and the news from the company's BUILD conference this week, it seems that Microsoft has finally showed up at the enterprise mobility party.

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BUILD 2014 reveals the cloud side of Nadella's Microsoft

Sataya Nadella's Microsoft is all about "mobile and the cloud," a more nuanced view of what it means to be a devices and services business. So if day one of its BUILD developer conference was all about the mobile, it's not surprising that day two was all about the cloud.

Not Android, not iOS: One of these others will win the mobile war

We talk a lot about the platform game in mobile: Is Android winning? Is iOS losing? Does Windows Phone have a chance? But these debates mostly focus on the rich world, and that's increasingly not where the action is.

Clari emerges from stealth to help mobile sales reps and their managers

Clari is a mobile app that takes data from a salesperson's calendar, email, CRM system, and other data sources, like documents stored in Box, then uses this data to provide useful information before, during, and after sales calls. The company emerged from stealth at last week's DEMO Enterprise conference, with several big customers already signed up.

Retoy: A fistful of plastic, made to order

Retoy has already helped Angry Birds developer Rovio sell physical toys and integrate them with their games. And at the DEMO Enterprise conference on April 3, Retoy announced a private beta to let any developer offer their customers toys that work with their games.

Mendix aims to make building apps as easy as building with Legos

Until code literacy becomes as ubiquitous as the ability to use e-mail, there has to be another way. For platform-as-a-service provider Mendix, their way is a drag-and-drop, intuitive interface for building apps that brings development time from months down to minutes - provided you know what you're doing.

Do Android users even need third-party security software?

We've written a lot recently about how my HTC One hasn't been the same since Verizon (finally) pushed out KitKat to subscribers in early February. But one thing that remained unaffected was security.

Don't get so excited: A Google wireless offering would be a snooze

A report indicates that Google hopes to offer mobile wireless services in the markets where it has built fiber networks. If so, the offering would be an incremental add-on, not a remarkable new service for residents like Google Fiber.